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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;” and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Revelation 3:15-18

To be spiritually lukewarm is not merely to be partially safe and partially in danger; it is rather to be in imminent danger and think ourselves safe.

It is not to be partially on fire for God and partially cold toward Him, it is rather to be unconcerned with our temperature altogether.

It is not to be partially in light and partially in darkness; it is rather to be blissfully ignorant of how deep we may truly be in darkness, and unenlightened of the Light which calls us out.

It is not merely to be half asleep and half awake; it is rather to be deep in slumber as we dream of the day in self-deception.

God would rather us know our evil and love it than feign loyalty to Him as proudly ignorant traitors.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:20-22

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness… …For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections…
Romans 1:24-6

When God is stretching out His hand to save, those most in line with His will are reflective vessels of His action. But likewise, when God is giving over a people to their own devices, those who are most in line with His will are reflective vessels of the same. The functioning members of Christ do not contradict Him; and that which does is by definition the spirit of antichrist which is the spirit of the age. And the perpetuation of that world system is self-destructive, for so is the inevitable way of the world. To get caught up even into its trappings flatly contradicts the call of God’s own. There is no higher purpose than that which is found in the counsel of God’s inner sanctum; where not a vestige of the vanity around us has any place.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord : They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Proverbs1:24-33

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation 2:20

Jezebel is an exact embodiment of witchcraft itself. Witchcraft is not merely demonism or the practice of sorcery, though these are often among its methods – but witchcraft is at its heart the supplanting or circumventing of true spiritual authority. Any person or organization which supplants or circumvents the authority of Christ alone over His church, including any one individual soul, is practicing witchcraft. The one who falsely accuses brethren for gain, or gossips rather than interceding, or thinks to take spoil under the guise of “building up the kingdom,” or asserts herself over men of God and weakens them, is walking in the spirit of witchcraft.

Saul was walking in such a spirit of witchcraft when he stretched out His hand to enrich his kingdom by the enemy’s spoils, although he had been commanded not to spare even the herds of the Amalekites. And in his rebuke, the prophet Samuel remarked…

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
1 Samuel 15:23

And this same Saul continued asserting himself as king, though the throne was no longer his right; and he eventually consulted a medium to help himself maintain control – for which act he was again rebuked by Samuel and soon after died.

There is a vicious spirit of witchcraft holding itself up against the people of God in this hour. It is cunning, often sly of speech, and invisible to the compromised. Yet hardly a word is spoken, let alone prayed, against its onslaught. Few are they in whom the commandment of God burns with His righteous indignation…

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Exodus 22:18

Vengeance is indeed the Lord’s, and the sons of heaven have not been equipped with an earthly weaponry; but those who never wield the Sword of the Spirit unashamedly will never see it fall upon His enemies who so trouble them.

All witchcraft, be it directly demonic in nature, or be it the sheer manipulation of others, is a work of the sinful flesh whose practitioners shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal 5:20).

We are not commanded to have mercy upon such a spirit, nor to tolerate it. If a person will not be emptied of the Devil’s works, let the fellowship of the saints be emptied of them. Jezebel will never go quite far enough to be exposed before all: therefore she will always have defenders wherever she is tolerated; and by this she deliberately wears out the saints who discern her presence. Not until she is suffered no more can she become exposed for what she is. Therefore our Lord warns her enablers…

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Revelation 2:21-23

For the word of God is quick, and powerfully working…
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

The true Word of the Lord is not the broad and bloated instrument that men have made it. For scarcely has the flaming sword left His mouth, and the thing He has decreed will be done. But the “word” going forth from the pulpits of our day is an indecisive word: it is a dull word for a dull ear. It is a word made by the people for the people – and knowhere is God Himself to be found in the process: He who is the True Word. The word of men cannot divide and discern the hearts like a freshly sharpened sword, nor can it winnow the wheat from the chaff. It quickens no man for the imminent Day of the Lord.

Those who wish to hear and speak only the familiar tidings of a paradigm long bereft of spiritual authority cannot stand against the great deception of this evil day. For there arises a darkness like never before seen, and the supposed men of God for this hour hold not a spark to its mountainous tide. They even supress any light lest they themselves should become exposed; but they will not long get away with it. They are candles without wicks, lamps without oil. If they will not burn today, they may drown in this flood and be burned tomorrow.

The prayer without discernment and the word without a divine decree has had its day – it has been weighed and measured, and it has been found grossly wanting. Let those who seek to obey the Lord no longer be desirous of such tepid trifles. The ear that fills itself merely with fond and comfortable sayings becomes dull of hearing; and only the word born of a holy fire can melt its wax.

Where the “quick and powerfully working” word of the Lord cannot go forth, His servants mourn.

O Lord, let your word for this hour be found inscribed on our hearts, traced by our steps, proclaimed by our lips. Let us not cease to hear Your voice – even where Your silence prevails – lest we sleep the sleep of death!

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 7:6

The assumption on our part that most people who claim to be born-again are actually saved leads to a great deal of fretting and spiritual expenditure over brethren which do not exist. It leads to distracted sheep trying to carnally herd goats while the rest of the true sheep languish, and it leads to ravenous wolves finding easy prey among the sheep and goats alike in the false name of love and acceptance.

We have incurred the judgement of God and done ourselves a great disservice by never assuming that many a false disciple, and even Judas himself at times, lurks in almost every context. But if His true sheep were truly being fed and warned, then the goats would either convert or be driven away by the Word going forth; and the wolves would be more easily spotted. As it stands today, the wolves rule, the goats are kept warm, and the sheep have been scattered.

We have been rent by the swine, for we have needlessly cast our pearls before them. Great is the fall of this house.

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Daniel 12:10

The Devil well knows that men long for participation in something greater than themselves, and that most will blindly descend to any depth of hell to keep the feeling of such alive. This is why the institutions, organizations, and movements which falsely call themselves the “church” in our day continue marching on into the mouth of destruction as though they have never lost God.

These empty husks which have long ensnared many a true member of the body of Christ have largely been abandoned by God and are now being emptied of His obedient children; for they have together become a repurposed corpse, animated by the spirit of antichrist.

Today we hear the cooing of their religious and “spiritual” leaders to involve the power of earthly governments and institutions in what they suppose to be the work of God. They will certainly help “change the world;” and in so doing remain bound to its fate.

Do not build the house of the Lord, for only He can build His church; and all else becomes a brothel of Babylon. To satiate the hunger for righteousness by her bread, and to quench the same thirst with her cup, is to engage in her abominations. Those who thereby aquire her tastes soon lust also after the blood of the saints, and are swift to harken unto the powers and principalities of the earth.

Though many among them speak much of justice for the weak and equity for the poor, truly it is the great dragon speaking as a lamb. For these hearts, which the mystery of iniquity so easily pervades, are ravenous against what is holy; because the light of holiness exposes the pretention of man’s ways. The Light by nature demonstrates that to serve man is to be excluded from service to Christ; all service not directly unto Christ becomes the boast of the wicked one.

And upon these sayings is often made manifest the hearts of the pure and the hearts of the whores: for the whores will not abide such talk. Upon the hearing of it, they cringe and spit and hiss and taunt, and run back to their mother Babylon to recieve instruction. Then she says to them, “Request of the earthly ruler: Give to me the heads of the holy on a platter,” and the heathen king will not deny her this deed; for he is blinded by his own lusts also.

There is no spirit with which she will not readily commune, nor bed of deception upon which she will not gladly lie. There is no abomination which she will not flaunt, nor depth of depravity from which she will forbid herself. There is no scheme of man with which she will not conspire, nor man of God whom she will not attempt to claw into hell with her.

She is what men today call the church; and her great power is the fruit of men’s refusal to discern and judge the spiritual. Few that willingly enter into covenant with her escape her spell, and all who stand against her power must by necessity be marginalized, slandered, and eventually persecuted; for these look for a city whose builder and maker is God, and these submit to His authority at the cost of all others.

There is no more remaining in Babylon and serving God; it is time to return to the holy land. To leave behind her comforts and religious activities at first seems an exile; but in the wilderness are found many waters which can come only from God. She will always be there to draw away and lay waste to the saints. By the hand of Ceasar she will betray without remorse those who naively mistake her for a holy woman. She cannot be converted: a man-made system cannot possess its own soul. Its soul can only be possessed by another, and it is not the Spirit of God; for He concerns Himself with the betrothed of Christ, that she be found chaste and holy.

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take partake in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
Revelation 18:4-5

Babylon, Babylon, mother of harlots:How far you will fall, great whore of the earth!Wrath you will reap, for by envy you warWith the saints in whom Christ is found birthed!